Military & Police

The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude and long-endurance UAV that is integrated with a sensor suite that provides global all-weather, day or night intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability. Global Hawk’s mission is to provide a broad spectrum of ISR collection capability to support joint combatant forces in worldwide peacetime, contingency and wartime operations. […]

As with Predator B, Predator C Avenger was developed through the foresight and funding of GA-ASI. Its unique design, reduced signature, and speed increases its survivability in higher threat environments and provides potential customers with an expanded quick-response armed reconnaissance capability. The first flight of Predator C occurred in April 2009. The aircraft is currently […]

An integral component of air warfare in the future looks to be unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAV) like the X47B, Taranis, nEUROn, and Sharp Sword combined with Swarm Drone types of systems. READ MORE: Swarm Drone systems Let’s take a closer look at the UCAV systems under development. X-47B (U.S.) The Northrop Grumman X-47B is […]

From military weapons expos in Jordan to idyllic SoCal beaches, we caught up with some of those who are building and selling unmanned aerial vehicles all over the world, and even convinced a few companies to let us take their flying spy robots for a spin. Originally aired on Motherboard.vice.com Like Motherboard on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv […]

DARPA and U.S. Navy’s joint program for development of a UAV for small-deck ships is progressing toward the target date of 2018 to begin test flights. The Tern project design is a flying-wing type drone that would lift off like a helicopter and then transition to wing-borne flight. The above video is a Phase 3 […]

A review of the military drone aircraft with one person’s opinion as to the top 10 military UAV in the world. Watch the above video of the 2014 list of top 10 military drones in the world. Top 10 Military List: BAE Taranis Global Hawk Camcopter S-100 Heron Predator C Avenger Dassault NEURON X-45 X-47B […]

After more than 700 days in space, the world’s ultimate drone, the Air Force’s X-37B unmanned space vehicle, landed at NASA ‘s Kennedy Space Center on May 7, 2017. Beginning in 2010, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has now flown four successful missions. X-37B Mission The X-37B OTV program aims to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, […]